Inauguration: Rs20.6m ICU set up at Civil Hospital
The 21-bed ICU has two intensive care wards.
GUJRANWALA:
An intensive care unit was inaugurated at the Civil Hospital on Tuesday. The ICU has been built at a cost of Rs20.6 million by the Buildings Department. This is the second ICU at the hospital. The unit that was scheduled for completion in October 2013 was completed before time and handed over to the Health Department during the inaugural ceremony. The 21-bed ICU has two intensive care wards. The project was launched in 2012. IT has been built on the first storey of the trauma centre of the Civil Hospital. The hospital was made a teaching hospital last year. Executive District Officer (Health) Dr Azhar Masood Bhatti presided over the inauguration ceremony. Administrator Dr Sohail Anjum Butt said 11 doctors, 22 nurses and 40 paramedics would be hired for the new unit. Dr Butt said that the old eight-bed ICU at the hospital was also operational. He said an interior blood transition machine had also been installed at the new unit. He said the hospital would charge Rs400 for each test through this machine. Private hospitals, he said, charged Rs800 for the same test.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 1st, 2013.
An intensive care unit was inaugurated at the Civil Hospital on Tuesday. The ICU has been built at a cost of Rs20.6 million by the Buildings Department. This is the second ICU at the hospital. The unit that was scheduled for completion in October 2013 was completed before time and handed over to the Health Department during the inaugural ceremony. The 21-bed ICU has two intensive care wards. The project was launched in 2012. IT has been built on the first storey of the trauma centre of the Civil Hospital. The hospital was made a teaching hospital last year. Executive District Officer (Health) Dr Azhar Masood Bhatti presided over the inauguration ceremony. Administrator Dr Sohail Anjum Butt said 11 doctors, 22 nurses and 40 paramedics would be hired for the new unit. Dr Butt said that the old eight-bed ICU at the hospital was also operational. He said an interior blood transition machine had also been installed at the new unit. He said the hospital would charge Rs400 for each test through this machine. Private hospitals, he said, charged Rs800 for the same test.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 1st, 2013.